Living in Adelaide
#1
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Living in Adelaide
Hi
I have just received a job offer in Adelaide, currently living in NZ for the last 12 months and the UK before that.
Can any one please give me your thoughts and advice on Adelaide
I have just received a job offer in Adelaide, currently living in NZ for the last 12 months and the UK before that.
Can any one please give me your thoughts and advice on Adelaide
#2
Re: Living in Adelaide
This is a good site ......
http://www.adelaidebound.com/
I have lived here for 46 years ,all my family is here so i might be a bit biased.........mm
http://www.adelaidebound.com/
I have lived here for 46 years ,all my family is here so i might be a bit biased.........mm
#3
Re: Living in Adelaide
This is a good site ......
http://www.adelaidebound.com/
I have lived here for 46 years ,all my family is here so i might be a bit biased.........mm
http://www.adelaidebound.com/
I have lived here for 46 years ,all my family is here so i might be a bit biased.........mm
I've done 2 years and I am also biased
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Location: Adelaide
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Re: Living in Adelaide
Nikki
#5
Re: Living in Adelaide
There's plenty of posts on the pros and cons of Adelaide - I've posted a few in response to similar questions before. Depending what line of work you're in it can take some time to get a job, but as you already have an offer that solves the main issue for most people. We've been here (a wee village in the Adelaide Hills) for about ten months and I work down the hill in the CBD. Very much enjoying life here. Happy to help with any specific questions you might have about Adelaide.
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Re: Living in Adelaide
hi
well we started in adelaide coz we have family there, we spent around 4 weeks there and spent another 5 weeks travelling up the coast - we are now in yeppoon. We absolutely love ad and out of all the capitals we have visited is far the best (imo). We cant wait to go back there it was so beautiful and quite abit to do around and about. Adelaide hills are something special and if you can look at a house on an open inspection i would highly recommend - but do bare in mind the house prices are soaring.
maria
well we started in adelaide coz we have family there, we spent around 4 weeks there and spent another 5 weeks travelling up the coast - we are now in yeppoon. We absolutely love ad and out of all the capitals we have visited is far the best (imo). We cant wait to go back there it was so beautiful and quite abit to do around and about. Adelaide hills are something special and if you can look at a house on an open inspection i would highly recommend - but do bare in mind the house prices are soaring.
maria
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Re: Living in Adelaide
Hi
Can anyone tell me what the schools are like in Adelaide please, myself OH and two children (boy of 7 and Girl of 11) are Sept applicants and are in the final stages (fingers crossed) of getting our visas and should hear soon. My daughter will be starting year 7 in Sept and any information on State High Schools would be appreciated. I have researched a few ,Mitcham girls school, Adelaide high, Aberfoyle park to name a few but without being able to go and have a look around its a bit of a waste of time. are all the Grammar schools Private , i cant seem to find any that dont cost a fortune?
Many thanks
Julie
Can anyone tell me what the schools are like in Adelaide please, myself OH and two children (boy of 7 and Girl of 11) are Sept applicants and are in the final stages (fingers crossed) of getting our visas and should hear soon. My daughter will be starting year 7 in Sept and any information on State High Schools would be appreciated. I have researched a few ,Mitcham girls school, Adelaide high, Aberfoyle park to name a few but without being able to go and have a look around its a bit of a waste of time. are all the Grammar schools Private , i cant seem to find any that dont cost a fortune?
Many thanks
Julie
#8
Re: Living in Adelaide
Hi
Can anyone tell me what the schools are like in Adelaide please, myself OH and two children (boy of 7 and Girl of 11) are Sept applicants and are in the final stages (fingers crossed) of getting our visas and should hear soon. My daughter will be starting year 7 in Sept and any information on State High Schools would be appreciated. I have researched a few ,Mitcham girls school, Adelaide high, Aberfoyle park to name a few but without being able to go and have a look around its a bit of a waste of time. are all the Grammar schools Private , i cant seem to find any that dont cost a fortune?
Many thanks
Julie
Can anyone tell me what the schools are like in Adelaide please, myself OH and two children (boy of 7 and Girl of 11) are Sept applicants and are in the final stages (fingers crossed) of getting our visas and should hear soon. My daughter will be starting year 7 in Sept and any information on State High Schools would be appreciated. I have researched a few ,Mitcham girls school, Adelaide high, Aberfoyle park to name a few but without being able to go and have a look around its a bit of a waste of time. are all the Grammar schools Private , i cant seem to find any that dont cost a fortune?
Many thanks
Julie
http://www.adelaidebound.com/schools.html
.............mm
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Re: Living in Adelaide
Thankyou Mr mover, this website is fantastic!!
Julie
Julie
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Re: Living in Adelaide
Australian houses are pretty much the Western world's most over-valued property market and the average wage/house price ratio is the worst in the Western world, with some people seriously expected to borrow eight or nine times their wage to get on the housing ladder. This is totally unsustainable. Throw into this little molotov cocktail the fact that Australian interest rates are going to have to go up at some point to meet the massive imminent inflation caused by oil prices doubling in less than a year, and there is no way Australia avoids the housing crash.
My assessment is that Australian housing stock is significantly over-valued and a large proportion of this value will be lost before 2010. It's just my opinion, and I for one would not buy into a market that hot. Any talk of an increase is either money men with vested interests or unmitigated panic-control from government. At this stage, stagnancy is the best one could hope for.
Finally, while drops in Australian house prices have already been reported, so has talk of an increase. Frankly, this is suicide for the Australian economy. The misery being suffered in the US and Britain was caused by housing stock being over-valued, and what goes up must come down. The longer Australian house prices go up, the harder they will fall.
#13
Re: Living in Adelaide
It seems the Media is being played somewhat at the moment, and from what I can tell big banks own quite a lot of the Newspapers and so Press releases may 'hit' the right desks more often than would strictly happen if this were not the case.
Only time will tell exactly what is going to happen. But the old adage 'if you say it often enough, people will believe it is true.' applies here and is the principle of good PR!
I hope that prices calm down somewhat, but I don't have enough information to make anything more than a guess!
Only time will tell exactly what is going to happen. But the old adage 'if you say it often enough, people will believe it is true.' applies here and is the principle of good PR!
I hope that prices calm down somewhat, but I don't have enough information to make anything more than a guess!
#14
Re: Living in Adelaide
Considering they are already 30% over-valued, a further increase of 16% makes them nearly 50% over-valued. Possibly more. Houses in the US have lost 23% in the last three months and at least 10% in between the start of the global credit crunch and the start of this three month period. This means they have probably already lost over a third of their value against their peak. The UK has already lost at least 10% (flats a lot more) and there is significantly more value coming off before Christmas, never mind this time next year.
Australian houses are pretty much the Western world's most over-valued property market and the average wage/house price ratio is the worst in the Western world, with some people seriously expected to borrow eight or nine times their wage to get on the housing ladder. This is totally unsustainable. Throw into this little molotov cocktail the fact that Australian interest rates are going to have to go up at some point to meet the massive imminent inflation caused by oil prices doubling in less than a year, and there is no way Australia avoids the housing crash.
My assessment is that Australian housing stock is significantly over-valued and a large proportion of this value will be lost before 2010. It's just my opinion, and I for one would not buy into a market that hot. Any talk of an increase is either money men with vested interests or unmitigated panic-control from government. At this stage, stagnancy is the best one could hope for.
Finally, while drops in Australian house prices have already been reported, so has talk of an increase. Frankly, this is suicide for the Australian economy. The misery being suffered in the US and Britain was caused by housing stock being over-valued, and what goes up must come down. The longer Australian house prices go up, the harder they will fall.
Australian houses are pretty much the Western world's most over-valued property market and the average wage/house price ratio is the worst in the Western world, with some people seriously expected to borrow eight or nine times their wage to get on the housing ladder. This is totally unsustainable. Throw into this little molotov cocktail the fact that Australian interest rates are going to have to go up at some point to meet the massive imminent inflation caused by oil prices doubling in less than a year, and there is no way Australia avoids the housing crash.
My assessment is that Australian housing stock is significantly over-valued and a large proportion of this value will be lost before 2010. It's just my opinion, and I for one would not buy into a market that hot. Any talk of an increase is either money men with vested interests or unmitigated panic-control from government. At this stage, stagnancy is the best one could hope for.
Finally, while drops in Australian house prices have already been reported, so has talk of an increase. Frankly, this is suicide for the Australian economy. The misery being suffered in the US and Britain was caused by housing stock being over-valued, and what goes up must come down. The longer Australian house prices go up, the harder they will fall.